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Tympanometry is not too bad. It’s a 200 Hz tone and doesn’t need to be that loud. Might be worth checking if you can reproduce the fullness. You could see if it is air pressure related or muscle tension related. If it looks normal, it would likely be a muscle pulling the eardrum. The peaks...

@PeterPan, @Hazel, @Markku, @Autumnly and study participants, I'm a little late to the party but I wanted to thank you all for your study and report. The infographic, the video, and the report set a wonderful example for what a patient group can do on its own. The results were presented clearly...

I am interested in your study proposal. Combining detailed modeling with clinical data has a lot of potential and it seems you try to be clear about what is supporting a theory and what is proving a theory. As you have mentioned, this seems helpful for other areas as well and I hope the next...

I guess it is open to interpretation. At the very least, the more severe the H, the more likely you are to have other health issues. I think it's impossible to untangle cause and effect from this, but we can see there's a trend. Mainly I think this is useful for those basic questions like does...

Below is a link to a tool for others to look though the 2014 NHIS survey data with a focus on hyperacusis and tinnitus. The NHIS survey is a United States National health survey of 37,000 people in the general population. There was a "hyperacusis" question along with tinnitus, hearing loss...

Safer but then it is impossible to talk about! There are so many dimensions. I'm not sure. I have always assumed that increased loudness cannot occur as a result of middle ear muscles. The ear is tuned for a certain acoustic impedance and I think changes in any direction tend to just make...

I think there are multiple sources of pain. Some people clearly have TT or TVP issues with flutter, tugging or thumping with pain, and crackle sounds for different triggers. But you rarely hear of flutter causing pain. And I believe most with H don't experience violent TTS spasms with pain...

This seems to be a reasonable argument and is the main thing holding me back from completely buying into the TTTS theory. Why is it uncommon for those with H to have pain speaking or swallowing if it is the TT that is causing it? I'm not talking about thumping or tugging, i'm talking about the...

Yes it can impact the Eustachian tube. The Tensor Tympani muscle is attached to the muscle used to open and close the Eustachian tube so there is a physical link there.

TTTS does not necessarily come with a clicking or thumping sound. I imagine it usually doesn't include those symptoms although flutter is often reported. It is characteristically very slow changes in the contraction of those muscles. The idea is that they are held in a tense/contracted state...

I believe that type of pain is TTTS related. The T spike may trigger activity in the two middle ear muscles to instinctively try to clamp down the sound (and of course it doesn't work). This can result in a pulsating pain that can be sharp or a even some constant dull pain. For me, that pain...

Got it. Thanks.

@Bill 122, you mentioned you've heard lidocaine injections helped people with H. Do you know where the injection site was?

This is an animal study. Mice or rats.

I have GC. This table provides a good summary: It seems strange to me that 25% (44/177) of those with the C allele but without a history of noise exposure have tinnitus while only 7% (2/29)of those with the C allele and with a history of noise exposure have tinnitus. I would expect noise...